Golgotha, (
Aramaic: “Skull”, ) also called Calvary, (from Latin calva: “bald head,” or “skull”), skull-shaped hill in Jerusalem, the site of Jesus’Crucifixion. It is referred to in all four Gospels. The hill of execution was outside the city walls of Jerusalem, apparently near a road and not far from the sepulchre where Jesus was buried. Its exact location is uncertain, but most scholars prefer either the spot now covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or a hillock called Gordon’s Calvary just north of the Damascus Gate.

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...of Christ, the funeral place hewn into the rock and surmounted by a small temple. Two levels of galleries surrounded the rotunda, and the whole was covered by a wooden cupola. The site of Golgotha, open to the sky, was preceded toward the east by a martyrium, a five-aisled basilica with tribunes, or raised platforms, intended for gatherings of the faithful. It probably terminated at...

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(or Golgotha, Aramaic for "skull"), skull-shaped hill in Jerusalem, the site of Jesus’ Crucifixion; referred to in all 4 Gospels of the Christian Bible; hill of execution was outside the city walls of Jerusalem, apparently near a road and not far from the sepulchre where Jesus was buried; exact location is uncertain, but most scholars prefer either the spot now covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or Gordon’s Calvary, a hill just north of the Damascus Gate.